Reduce Noise Pollution
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Noise pollution is an unwanted or disturbing sound which can interfere with normal activities for humans and wildlife, such as sleeping, conversation, reproduction, communication, or disrupt or diminish one's quality of life. Noise pollution can negatively impact the body in significant ways, including elevated blood pressure, impaired cognitive functioning, cardiovascular and psychophysiological effects, cause heart attacks, reduce performance, provoke annoyance responses and changes in social behaviour and other effects of chronic stress. Noise pollution can come from many sources, such as automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft, ships, trucks, buses, jet planes, construction equipment, electrical machinery, lawn mowers and leaf blowers, to name a few. Excessive noise pollution, from the city streets to the oceans' commercial shipping traffic, can have harmful effects on the humans, plants, animals, trees and marine life constantly exposed to it. Learn more.
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Why Mitigate Noise?
Long-term exposure to traffic noise may lead to coronary heart disease and accounts for approximately 210,000 deaths in Europe each year. Learn more. |
Discover 'Noise Off Solutions' to Noise Pollution, including Automotive, Building Materials, Consulting Services, Consumer Products, Headphones, Hearing Protection, Industrial Applications, Interior Windows and Window Treatments and Sound Meters.
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Last Revised: 11/20/13
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